Video on demand.
This may have been covered here or on LMT, not sure.
An excerpt from Telecommunications Magazine's September 2000 issue titled:
"Video On Demand: Users Take Charge," by Sean Buckley
telecoms-mag.com
An excerpt follows:
Analysts are also seeing video-on-demand as a positive addition to a growing revenue source for MSOs. "MSOs still have a strong revenue base from their core business and are getting increased revenues from high-speed Internet access with penetration rates of about 6 percent, which will become a real revenue maker," said Patti Reali, senior telecom analyst for the Gartner Group. "Video-on-demand is not necessarily core to their business, but it will provide them with another key differentiator."
CLECs and RBOCs are also now beginning to launch their own flavor of video-on-demand over DSL. Enron Broadband Services and Blockbuster Inc. recently signed a 20-year, exclusive agreement to deliver Blockbuster movies on-demand over the Enron Intelligent Network. Beginning in 2001, Blockbuster will provide content for the entertainment service and market the service to its customers, while Enron will encode and stream the content over its global broadband network infrastructure, provision bandwidth on demand and store the entertainment content. Distribution providers Covad Communications, Qwest, ReFlex, SBC Communications Inc., Telus and Verizon Communications will deliver this service to customers through their respective DSL networks. In addition, Blockbuster will sell the DSL service through its retail stores nationwide. |
